JWT Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring JWT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JWT over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 333 438
Rank change year-on-year +42 +105 +141
Contract jobs citing JWT 25 6 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.042% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 7
10th Percentile £413 £410 £395
25th Percentile £460 £472 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £564 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +0.18% -6.25%
75th Percentile £568 £624 £769
90th Percentile £591 £632 £835
UK median daily rate £506 £578 £525
% change year-on-year -12.38% +10.00% -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

JWT falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,777 3,520 5,824
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.06% 24.88% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,965 2,505 4,314
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £526
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.61% -4.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £511 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.08% -2.18% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 88 71
10th Percentile £31.00 £32.38 £25.75
25th Percentile £52.13 - £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.25 £72.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -12.70% +16.13%

JWT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JWT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JWT trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JWT
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JWT.

JWT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JWT
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JWT over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

JWT daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JWT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) GCP
2 12 (48.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (16.00%) Serverless
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (12.00%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.00%) Bitrise
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Run
8 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.00%) SSL
3 1 (4.00%) FTP
3 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (24.00%) MySQL
3 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (16.00%) Redis
4 3 (12.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) Big Data
5 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) Flink
5 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) JUnit
2 4 (16.00%) Mockito
3 3 (12.00%) Eclipse
3 3 (12.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Gradle
3 3 (12.00%) IntelliJ
3 3 (12.00%) Maven
3 3 (12.00%) TestNG
4 1 (4.00%) Crashlytics
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) fastlane
4 1 (4.00%) MLflow
4 1 (4.00%) Mocha
4 1 (4.00%) Toad
4 1 (4.00%) XCUITest
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Lead
3 5 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Java Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Backend Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Digital Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead Java Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Integration Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (80.00%) OAuth
2 13 (52.00%) RESTful
3 10 (40.00%) Spring
4 9 (36.00%) REST
4 9 (36.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (20.00%) Node.js
6 4 (16.00%) JSON
6 4 (16.00%) SAML
6 4 (16.00%) Spring Security
7 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (12.00%) GWT
7 3 (12.00%) Hibernate
7 3 (12.00%) Kafka
7 3 (12.00%) LDAP
7 3 (12.00%) OAuth2
7 3 (12.00%) React
7 3 (12.00%) Servlets
7 3 (12.00%) SOAP
7 3 (12.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Microservices
2 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 11 (44.00%) API Design
3 11 (44.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (28.00%) Event-Driven
5 6 (24.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
5 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 5 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 5 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.00%) Analytics
7 4 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) Migration
7 4 (16.00%) OWASP
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) SOLID
7 4 (16.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Java
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) Go
4 2 (8.00%) Groovy
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) GDPR
2 3 (12.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) OpenAM
2 2 (8.00%) OpenDJ
2 2 (8.00%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Grafana
2 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Google
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) ForgeRock
4 2 (8.00%) Okta
5 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.00%) Axway
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.00%) Pega
5 1 (4.00%) Talend